DIY Nail Polish Marbled Eggs

My new favorite thing is nail polish marbling. Have you tried it? The other day I decided to dip a few eggs like I did these glasses – and then proceeded to work my way through two dozen eggs. It makes me seriously wish I had more colors of nail polish!

And then I had to take roughly a million pictures. Because aren’t they just the coolest?

To marble some eggs with nail polish here’s what you need:

Eggs. A lot of them. Because once you start you’ll want keep dipping.

Nail polish in all kinds of fun shades. My Essie polishes worked fine this time, I think because I wasn’t trying to make a specific design. And silver polish was amazing!

A plastic cup or bowl filled with room temperature water. This is very important! If the water is too cold or too hot, the polish won’t work. (In round 2 of nail polish marbling, I learned that using a larger bowl makes dipping much easier!)

Toothpicks.

Nail polish remover. You’ll need this to get the polish off your fingers when you’re done.

Drop lots of nail polish into the water. If it sinks, the temperature isn’t right. You want it to spread out over the top of the water. Have fun playing with colors! Then take a toothpick and swirl the colors a bit.

Hold your egg between your fingers so that you cover the least amount of surface area on the egg. Then dunk straight down into the water, hold for a second underwater and then bring it up.

If you use a larger container, then you can roll the egg around under the water and bring it up on the blank side so that you can cover all of the egg with polish. Sit the egg in a carton or something and let it dry.

Yes, your fingers will get a bit messy. I tried dunking with skewers or spoons and nothing worked as well as my hands.

Have you decorated any eggs for Easter yet? I dyed some with the kids last weekend and it was really hard to share.

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That looks beautiful!!!! I’ve seen that on Pinterest for doing your fingernails, but never thought about it on eggs before!, If you use blown eggs, with a long craft needle, you could thread a knotted piece of thread or fishing line through both ends and dip it. That would prevent getting polish on your hands AND you could hang them to dry

If you want to do this but are concerned about using the nail polish on hard boiled eggs, just do it with hollow egg shells instead. Blow the eggs out, wash the shells, leave them to dry and then scramble the eggs up for breakfast. After breakfast, have fun dipping the shells in nail polish or anything else you want to dip them in.

DO NOT EAT THEM!! We tried this with a few of our eggs. They certainly did not look like the pictures above. but when we went to peel them the next day they REEKED!. The chemical reaction with the inside of the egg was pretty unpleasant. (Like very, VERY rotten onions and eggs!) I think the only way to decorate with nail polish is on an empty (blown) eggshell.

Eat,Don’t do it nail polish is poison,that’s why food colors are used. Should be wearing gloves,of latex if not allergic,line bowls disposable ones in waxed paper you’ve greased. Our Daughter and Grand did this Glorious Easter morn,they are off to the hardware store for Acetone,1 bottle fingernail polish won’t get it.

BEWARE! Tried this. Eggs turned out ok, but after storing in frig, the smell contaminated everything! Still trying to get smell and taste of polish out of foods. Had to toss perfectly good fruits, veggies and meat. Even wrapped food tastes like chemical after weeks. May be pretty but definitely not safe or practical from a chemical perspective.

Thought it might work well with pollystarine (?spelling) eggs. Stick a cocktail stick in one end then dip in solution. Take out then use other end of stick to stand it in flower foam to dry. These would look nice in a bowl and could be brought out each year. Or pin a ribbon in to hang on twigs.

If you can no longer find the wire tool that was used for egg dyeing, why not try to bend a wire coat hanger into the desired shape? I think this would give your finished eggs a more “polished” (sorry, couldn’t resist) look. ;)

So your saying not to worry about the poisons that WILL seep through? Dibutyl phthalate, toluene, and formaldehyde. If they seep though your fingernails, it WILL seep through an egg that has millions of tiny holes so the baby chick don’t die.

My nieces are gonna love this one! This will be the first Easter I get to spend with them, and there’s nothing they love more than painting their fingernails right now. They’re gonna love it! I’m not sure if they can eat these eggs afterwards .. .so we’ll probably do a few just for fun. Thanks!

Hi, these look fabulous so I tried them yesterday. I have a couple of concerns and mine did not turn out even half way so nice as the ones on the photos. Firstly, the smell is unbearable. I didn’t realise how bad it was until my daughter called out from the bathroom two rooms away asking what I am up to and I only did two eggs by then. I took them out to the balcony right away and had to keep the windows open for an hour in the flat – being nearly 0 Celsius outside. Well, it is just my story :) Today I thought I take them in and see, but it is not because of their looks that I will not have them inside but again their smell. They stink big time! So for me this project is a no-no…. I am so sad :( I worked with hollow eggs btw and they work fine if you can stick them onto something, easier to dry them anyway.

Messy project. Keep area well ventilated because of he fumes. It’s difficult to cover all sides of the egg. Worked well on plastic eggs, strung on fishing line (allowed for smudge free drying and dipping) and coverage of the egg.

Those are so pretty! & why not use a wire dipper like the 1s that come w/ egg dyeing kits? I’m old enough to remember when you could buy egg marbling kits that used lacquer paints similar to nail polish. We placed the dipped eggs on waxed paper to dry.

Great idea, my daughter does her nails like this all the time. Why not try it on plastic eggs too? Put a string through the end first, dip and hang it to dry. ********* You certainly wouldnt want to eat the egg after doing this.

First, please don’t get me wrong, these eggs are very lovely. But I think it’s definitely important to note that nail polish usually contains several seriously dangerous toxins, and egg shells are porous, so you really wouldn’t want to eat them after they’ve been dipped in nail polish.

Oh man, or taping off the tip of little girls Easter shoes an marbleizing the the tips of the shoes! I hope that made sense. Then you could paint polka dots or little eggs over the rest of the shoes. My mind is spinning! Thank you so much for this inspiration.

If you use blown eggs, with a long craft needle, you could thread a knotted piece of thread or fishing line through both ends and dip it. That would prevent getting polish on your hands AND you could hang them to dry

Sounds good but I’m not sure a hollow egg would sink in the water? Did you try it yet? Maybe you could roll it around on the top? Also, we use paint and a cheap tin (pie tin, roasting tin etc. from Dollar Tree) same thing and no messy fingers – just put a piece of poster board in the bottom and squirt lines of paint on it then put in the egg (one at a time) and roll it around until it’s covered the way you want it – you will also get a pretty cool looking piece of poster board to use some other crafty way!! Happy Crafting!!